Giveaway

Or maybe now.

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

...The University of California system’s existing policy is that all teaching on campuses—including the materials instructors create for classes, whether lecture notes, multimedia presentations, or web-ready content—is protected by copyright, and the creators of the material have exclusive rights to their uses.
 
Yet in the Wild West of online education, faculty members are being offered a variety of terms and contracts. Some accord course copyright exclusively to the university so that the courses are no longer considered the property of their creators. Other contracts establish joint ownership by the instructor and the university on the grounds that the university has invested substantial resources in putting the course online. Often faculty members are offered no contract at all, and though the University of California’s course copyright policy states that copyright lies with the instructor, there is no assurance of judicial protection...

Full story at http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/05/19/the-erosion-of-faculty-rights/

Well - who needs rights to a course anyway?